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«Project fundraising has clearly evolved lately going from a mass ICO funding in 2018 to IEO's.

Investors are not anymore willing to invest and get their investments (tokens even if it is security) months or years later. Moreover, trusted platforms give a sense of „regulation“ as they are supposed to do Due Diligences. A lot of actors are currently taking advantage of this new kind of crowdfunding and are doing kickflips. I highly suggest to all investors to not to fall into the FOMO (Fear of not missing) and to invest only after extended due diligence. The hype of IEO is very risky and even if a lot of projects did an x4, x5 in a couple of days later this won't last long. Rules are evolving, groups are organized to increase there a chance of investing and a lot of things still remain very shady.

Concerning crypto-projects, this is now a race to get a place to the best IEO platform. And this is wrong! After all, they need to deliver a product, have legal aspects ready and a dedicated team and community. After the ICO White Paper era, don't fall once again in a rush and misunderstand what real investor needs. We need challenging minds and products that disrupt how the current industry works not IEO. We need real blockchain usage, not just a token that no on-chain meaning. If you have a great idea and a product ready you can think about fund raising. Finally, I see a lot of projects really still concerned about exchanges. Why? Exchanges will come when the time comes when you have a product when it is adopted and used when you have a community. Don't spend your funds in bad investments focus on products, partnerships and user acquisition.»

Expert opinion by Alexandre Orfevre for ICO Market Weekly Review #13, 2019

Read more in Benchy Blogs: https://icobench.com/thebench-post/270-from-a-mass-ico-funding-in-2018-to-ieos-in-2019

It had to happen by some or other means but the question was How? Now we have the answer - IEO! ICO market was literally struggling for less credibility considering the number of scams and frauds happened during last 2 years so genuine business owners had to find a workaround!

IEOs are effectively bridging the delays that was another major pain point for almost all investors. Now with IEO, the token is available in exchange within a very short period of time. That's another major reason for a lot of people are finding it interesting!

However, I just hope that exchanges will ensure that due diligences are done before listing an IEO in their exchange so that the market credibility comes back on track!

Getting your tokens right after purchase is an even worse idea. If it would happen like that then people would be able to trade their tokens between each other and it will influence this ICO in a negative way. Second is that it is stupid af to trade shares of a project that did not even raise money to become somehow established and start this fucking project.

Lock periods are essential in real projects cases as it may represent the highest security against speculation, which in tern may enhance coin holders protection. Contributors not willing to wait for lock periods to get their coins may be actually risking their own coins value.

Consider a situation when an ICO is taking place over an extended period of time, which in this case the long time only means the steady growth an ICO is targeting, if a contributor gets his/her coins today with higher bonuses as an early comer and with no restrictions on re-sale, that respective contributor can turn around and dump the coin at a preferential rate that may suddenly increase coin supply in the market, while new contributors with less bonuses as late comers may risk the dumped supply effect on their holdings.

To be fair and square, contributors may have to give weight to lock periods and consider that it may be for their benefit.

Otherwise, if a contributor is looking to speculate, then maybe he/she should consider an ICO with zero lock periods and accept the risks involved.

Perhaps, contributors need to consider the fundamentals of a project and not the mechanics of speculation possibilities. That is, if the contributor is looking for stable results and not risks compared to gambeling.

Yes, IEO is a revolution of ICO and now we see a new hype. People buyng coins not because it good, but because they from IEO. The question is not: good coin or not? The question is: Did you need money?

As long as there is fear from the situation, staying away from new projects will be continued. First try of IEO in binance created a new hope for everyone to make profit. But, IEO will also evaporate as time goes on.

IEOs are a much better solution from ICOs as there is a third party - exchanges who are supervising the project and gives confidence for the investors that they won`t be scammed.
 

Well, IEO may have a better solution because it has the third party, in this case, the exchange.
However, the most important thing is also the trust of investors. To build trust, the team should know which exchange will give high trust. If they choose the low exchange, not popular, and also a new exchange, it may also decrease the trust. The better exchange will give a better solution and trust.
However, noted that exchange is only the way of crowdfunding, we must also still consider the quality of the projects seen from their ideas, concepts, products, and also how their team and developer can maintain and make the coins to be successful.

That also makes 2019 better, we have to believe that IOE did increase the demand because investors are now coming back believing in this new platform.
I would not be surprise if the bull runt that we are expecting will happen this year, last time there was a bull run was also because of the popularity of the ICO, now it's the IEO taking place.

It would have been nice if investors are really looking out for these things you mentioned that must be about a project, BUT reality must be faced, most investors are after profit alone, we have many projects that have this quality but once investors gets the opportunity to dump the project they do, not minding what will happen to such project with their actions.

First, if investors really want to proof that they are good investors  and are after the project success or what the project can offer in terms if services and quality, then they need to stop dumping this coins after they get to exchange and allow them to proof their worth, that is all we have to do.

I do not think that there was something massive on the ICO market during 2018. It was a very hard year, especially for the ICOs market, because people wanted only to save their portfolios and nobody talked about investing big a year ago.

You are absolutely right about that (quote above), In fact, seasoned investors - or the most reliable ones - may think along the lines you mentioned. The other type may be looked at as speculators. Speculators, while they keep the market active on daily basis - in a sense - they actually hinder their own future opportunities. And, your remarks may be a very good advise for this group to reconsider their speculation strategies if they want to ultimately profit on the long term, otherwise they will be just profiting on one side and risking being victims of their own speculative strategies on the long term. This has been the trend in every speculative situation whether it is in the crypto market, forex, or equity and debt trading markets.

you're right. 2018 is a very difficult year for all projects and for all users of cryptocurrencies and investors

The IEO is like an ICO or you invest in Bitcoin or altcoin that is being traded on exchange. You have to create a strategy for your investment. Just like when buying an IEO most buyers will sell them after the token is listed exchange

We really need to appreciate the concept of IEO, I can imagine if there was no IEO, what would have become of the general market cap by now. There wouldn’t have been much investors left to participate in ICO which means, no much fund will be injected into the market.

At the same time, if I am to look at it in different angle, it would have actually boosted the marketcap too, investor will stop looking into new projects and strictly investing in the already existing ones, which will make their demand to be high and thereby causing spike in the marketcap too, so which ever direction it follows, crypto will still remain active and positive.

I do see a lot of campaigners that are complaining that they hate IEO, and it is all because they are thinking that IEO is not going to be in favor because platforms are not going to be in need of bounty hunters any longer if IEO should take over. But whatever, I still think that no matter what, there will always be a way for that to benefit everyone. Though I’m tired of seeing all these campaigners posting trash in the forum all in the name of campaign.

IEO was born because seems like there is no more reliable ICO anymore nowadays.
Too many scam ICOS in the past, made investors afraid to investing on crypto sphere.
And IEO is the solution of that problem. Crypto investors now can using their money in cryptocurrency world with ease.

And the same results
When ico Kickstarted; early bookers early investors made a lot of profits in first few months of ic

The same is happening to ieos; let’s watch what happens when the hype is no more

This is the Crypto market,  we're project controls the market and not individuals, once something new is been launched in to the market, a lot of persons will always want to try it out, and besides, IEO is a very better version of the ICO we have participating in, since the IEO is being controlled by popular exchanges that have already made name for themselves and will not want to destroy their reputation just for few dollars.

in the first place, 90 percent of the exchanges have no reputation, therefore it does not matter at all. The exchanges do what is profitable for them.

On my opinion, investors kind of confideton joining projects that have IEOs now. Thinking its already on exchange so there's nothing to worry about listing. Some ICO never get listed even after a successful token sale which is very disappointing.

Yes, IEO is just a rebrand of ICO and it also comes with its hype and this is the reason why many are rushing to be part of it but seriously speaking, I think IEO will also have issues later especially once most of those projects are not doing what's inside their Whitepaper the same way we experienced in ICO.

Even though this new type of crowd funding solution is quickly gaining in popularity and generating a lot of hype in the process, it's highly advisable to do your own due diligence and not rely on the exchange that is hosting the IEO to do it for you because not all offerings will be of a high quality standard or are likely to provide any returns on your investment so make sure you take these factors into consideration as well as market conditions before you invest

Maybe they could raise the fund to the profit of the trade and the payment of the coin's associate to the exchange platform I guess? Because as I can see, they can really make profit everywhere, what they will just need is the popularity and the market to help them gain fund that they will be able to use in the future development.

Yeah it seems that IEO is good especially if it came from a known exchanger like Binance, Kucoin and other establish exchanges. Usually a good crypto is listed in a good exchange and this will be the basis of the crowd to invest in a project or not. IEO is still new but it has a good purpose and support from the crowd because it has also associated with security of the investments knowing about the good of the tokens to be brought in the near future.

IEO help the market change from bearish to bullish, in short it help the market to recover.
This new funding method will continue to gain popularity as we slowly shifting from ICO to IEO and I will truly support this to minimize scams in the market.

Icobench has been looking into new coin world very carefully and they have always followed the new coins religiously for a long time so when they are saying IEO is becoming the new thing you gotta believe them. But what I wonder is what happened to STO coins ?

Just because, IEO got more famous we should not forget the amount of STO that came out this year as well. Their only one downfall was that when ICO was not liked as much as they used to and people were looking for something else they switched to STO but as soon as STO was getting a bit more famous the IEO style came up and destroyed all the work STO did and now taking away from ICO much more than STO was taking away.

We should nevertheless hope that all ICO get switched to STO and IEO soon instead of ICO and IEO, that way we can say there is barely any ICO left and that would mean much better results and fewer scams.

I agree totally with what you pointed out. A good product also matters as it will show how effective the team is, not just investing or buying because it is IEO. On the other hand, IEO is better than ICO now because inventors are sure there will be no room for scam. This is one of the reasons why IEO is far better and a good choice of investing than ICO thus the hype around it.

You have said it all, in as much as investors are trying to run from scams in ICOs by going for IEOs it is also very important to know the type of project they are investing in; that is, the possiblity of achieving what was stated and if the team is really capable. If IEOs are properly taken care of or managed they will be far better than ICOs.

Mass funding projects will benefit people in the future. However, I think that mass funding will be very good for Bitcoin and Blockchain to become widespread. To mention the mass funding project, a project I recently saw AzFundChain project. This project is a decentralized and transparent currency circle and mass funding application running on the blockchain. Again, I know the CrowdFunding project. Are there other such projects?